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Changes to the GMC’s core guidance for doctors could lead to more regulatory investigations, the MDU warned today. The GMC is currently consulting on a new version of Good Medical Practice including widening the scope of the standards against which all doctors will be judged. Setting these standards is a key function of the GMC. By clearly… Read more »
A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »
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Union leaders have universally condemned Tony Blair’s speech to the TUC in Brighton today, seeing it only as the final words of a defeated prime minister. His annual address to trade unionists has never been Mr Blair’s favourite event and when announcing last week that he would quit Downing Street within a year, he noted… Read more »
Tony Blair was heckled, booed and faced a walk-out from union members as he faced the TUC this afternoon for the last time as prime minister. Trade unionists have spent the last two days discussing how to fight the government’s programme of privatisation, and this afternoon’s address saw RMT members walk out holding banners calling… Read more »
